Locating Earthquakes using Geiger’s Method (codes included)
Simple earthquake location problem and its solution using Geiger’s method
Utpal Kumar, PhD
Earth Inversion
Computational Seismology, Scientific Software, and Data-Driven Infrastructure Monitoring
Technical writing on geophysical pipelines, scalable data analysis, and reproducible research engineering.
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Research
Peer-reviewed work in seismology, structural health monitoring, and large-scale inversion.
Data Analysis
End-to-end workflows for high-volume scientific data: ingestion, QC, feature extraction, and modeling.
Web Computing
Cloud and web platforms for real-time sensing, visualization, and operational analytics.
Exploratory Factor Analysis (codes included)
Factor Analysis is an exploratory data analysis method used to search influential underlying factors or lat...
Recent posts
Recent technical articles on seismic analytics, scientific computing, numerical modeling, and production data workflows.
Working with obspy and basemap (codes included)
This post is aimed to resolve the issues regarding the conflicts of using obspy and basemap libraries together.
Time series analysis in geophysics (codes included)
Time-series analysis is essential in most fields of science, including geophysics, economics, etc. Most of the geophysical data comes in a time-series format...
Gmt tutorial for beginners (codes included)
The Generic Mapping Tools is widely used across Earth and Planetary and other fields of studies to process data and generate high-quality illustrations. This...
Getting started with obspy: downloading waveform data (codes included)
Obspy is an open-source Python framework developed for the processing of seismological data. In this post, I will introduce how to use Obspy along with some ...
Simple wave modeling and hilbert transform in matlab (codes included)
We demonstrate how to model a simple wave, obtain its frequencies, apply Hilbert transform, and perform edge detection
Writing netcdf4 data using python (codes included)
NetCDF file format has been designed for storing multidimensional scientific data such as temperature, rainfall, humidity, etc. In this post, we will see how...
Time series analysis in python: filtering or smoothing data (codes included)
In this post, we will see how we can use Python to low-pass filter the 10 year long daily fluctuations of GPS time series. We need to use the “Scipy” package...
How to insert equation numbering in ms word
It is essential to insert equation numbers in your thesis and/or any scientific paper. In this post, I will show you some of the easiest ways to insert equat...
Reading netcdf4 data in python (codes included)
In Earth Sciences, we often deal with multidimensional data structures such as climate data, GPS data. It ‘s hard to save such data in text files as it would...
Writing scientific papers in ulysses
Ulysses is a natural, freestyle way of writing. If you got any idea, just write it down, worry about the format and other things when you’re done. Don’t let ...
Pygmt: high-resolution topographic map in python (codes included)
A simple tutorial on how to plot high resolution topographic map using GMT tools in Python
Plotting seismograms with increasing epicentral distance using python (codes included)
Short demostration of how to plot the distance vs seismic waveforms and mark the P and S arrival times using the IASP91 earth model. Codes are included.
Working with obspy and basemap (codes included)
This post is aimed to resolve the issues regarding the conflicts of using obspy and basemap libraries together.
Time series analysis in geophysics (codes included)
Time-series analysis is essential in most fields of science, including geophysics, economics, etc. Most of the geophysical data comes in a time-series format...
Gmt tutorial for beginners (codes included)
The Generic Mapping Tools is widely used across Earth and Planetary and other fields of studies to process data and generate high-quality illustrations. This...
Getting started with obspy: downloading waveform data (codes included)
Obspy is an open-source Python framework developed for the processing of seismological data. In this post, I will introduce how to use Obspy along with some ...
Simple wave modeling and hilbert transform in matlab (codes included)
We demonstrate how to model a simple wave, obtain its frequencies, apply Hilbert transform, and perform edge detection
Writing netcdf4 data using python (codes included)
NetCDF file format has been designed for storing multidimensional scientific data such as temperature, rainfall, humidity, etc. In this post, we will see how...
Time series analysis in python: filtering or smoothing data (codes included)
In this post, we will see how we can use Python to low-pass filter the 10 year long daily fluctuations of GPS time series. We need to use the “Scipy” package...
How to insert equation numbering in ms word
It is essential to insert equation numbers in your thesis and/or any scientific paper. In this post, I will show you some of the easiest ways to insert equat...
Reading netcdf4 data in python (codes included)
In Earth Sciences, we often deal with multidimensional data structures such as climate data, GPS data. It ‘s hard to save such data in text files as it would...
Writing scientific papers in ulysses
Ulysses is a natural, freestyle way of writing. If you got any idea, just write it down, worry about the format and other things when you’re done. Don’t let ...
Pygmt: high-resolution topographic map in python (codes included)
A simple tutorial on how to plot high resolution topographic map using GMT tools in Python
Plotting seismograms with increasing epicentral distance using python (codes included)
Short demostration of how to plot the distance vs seismic waveforms and mark the P and S arrival times using the IASP91 earth model. Codes are included.